Spice Merchants

Until Garment of Shadows publishes in eleven days, I’ll be posting images from the book, with tidbits of prose to go along. You might even want to re-visit these posts after you’ve got your hands on the book.

One street held shops displaying tall cones of varicoloured powder, from the deep red of paprika to brilliant yellow turmeric, interspersed with vendors selling bags of sticks, leaves, seeds, and what appeared to be sand, bowls of dusty blue chunks of indigo…